Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Get Healthy with the Maker's Superfoods! Part 1

This week we are going to talk about how to enrich your life with optimal health, using some of the best food choices that God has provided. We'll discuss the food and its benefit (taken from the Maker's Diet) and then I'll give my personal brand recommendations and recipes!

"If you follow the precise biblical recommendations for the Creator's seafood, you can ensure health and avoid disease. (See Leviticus 11:9-12.) Fish is a wonderfully rich source of protein, potassium, vitamins and minerals. For those who simply don't get enough cold-water fish, it is imperative that you take a form of high quality cod liver oil every day. Today we understand scientifically that fish and cod liver oil:

Thin the blood

Protect the arteries from damage

Inhibit blood clots (antithrombotic)

Reduce blood triglycerides

Lower LDL blood cholesterol

Lower blood pressure

Reduce risk of heart attack and stroke

Ease symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis

Reduce risk of lupus

Relieve migraine headaches

Fight inflammation

Help regulate the immune system

Inhibit cancer in animals (and possibly humans)

Soothe bronchial asthma

Combat early kidney disease

Much of the healing powers of fish reside in the omega-3 fatty acids that are particularly highly concentrated in cold-water fish such as salmon, sardines, bluefish, herring, lake trout, mackarel, sablefish, white-fish, bluefin tuna and anchovies, as well as in cod liver oil. Doctors have prescribed cod liver oil for more than two hundred years for a number of ailments, including rheumatism and arthritis.

...Studies show that cod liver oil high in omega-3 fats EPA and DHA reduces or eliminates all three risks. {for heart attack and stroke} The higher the levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood, the lower your blood pressure and your risk of heart disease and cancer!"

Wow! It's amazing that fish and fish oil can do all that for us! In our house, we all take cod liver oil every day. (Even the little guys.) I could barely take it when we started the Maker's Diet 4.5 years ago, but I developed a technique where I just pour it off a spoon down the back of my throat bypassing my taste buds! :) We take the Garden of Life cod liver oil:

but they also sell capsules if you don't want to take the liquid form. The best place online I've found to purchase supplements is http://www.choicenutritionals.com.

And remember, when you're eating fish, you need to buy wild-caught fish if you want any of the aforementioned health benefits. Eating farm-raised salmon or any other farm raised fish is a good way to ensure you ingest toxins, not the benefits of one of the Maker's top superfoods! For more on the dangers of farmed fish, I'd recommend you check out these articles by Dr. Mercola: